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sited, ppl. a.|ˈsaɪtɪd|
Also 7 scited.
[f. site n.2 or L. sit-us placed, situated.]
1. a. Of buildings, countries, etc.: Having a (certain) site or situation; situated. Usually const. with preps. or advs. (Common c 1600–1650, and in recent use.)
α1455Rolls of Parlt. V. 305/2 A mansion for the Dean there, sited betwene the Toure called the Clokhous, and the wall of our seid Palice. 1585W. Whitaker Answ. Rainolds 283 The garden wherein Adam for a time remained, was sited in the east. 1598R. Grenewey Tacitus, Ann. xiii. xii. (1622) 198 A Riuer..sited in the confines of both their Countries. 1619in Foster Eng. Factories India (1906) I. 72 A little howse..sited in midst of a small wood. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. i. xxxviii, This fair Isle, sited so nearely neare. 1975No Through Road (Automobile Assoc.), This unusually sited lake, halfway up a steep hillside, was created when a glacial overflow channel became blocked. 1979Weekend Bargain Breaks (Trusthouse Forte) 17/1 The hotel..is well sited in this peaceful town.
β1610Holland Camden's Brit. 122 Ireland, an Isle most fruitful, and fitly scited to endamage Spain. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iv. 179 Aix.., scited in the furthermost parts of Provence. a1661― Worthies ii. London (1662) 218 The City of Leyden is scited in the very bottom of the Low-Countries.
b. Turned, or facing, in respect of site. rare.
1665J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 102 Their Temples were..sited indifferently towards all Parts of the World.
†2. Of things, persons, etc.: Having a particular place or position; placed, seated. Obs.
1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xx. iii. 145 When she [the moon] is sited just against and directly by line opposite, she will shine out at the full. 1624Gataker Wife in Deed 10 A wart, or a wen,..sited and seated in some conspicuous part. 1624― Transubst. 98 What should he speake to him as sited elsewhere, when hee hath him corporally there present? 1660R. Coke Justice Vind. 9 Aristotle..makes virtue and vice to be sited in the power of man. |